Courage Quotes
No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.Ronald Reagan
Courage is being scared to death - But saddling up anyway.John Wayne
All of our dreams can come true - - If we have the courage to pursue them.Walt Disney
There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.Hellen Kelle
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.John Lancaster Spalding
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.Carl Sandburg
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.Conan Doyle
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.Robert G. Ingersoll
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.George Bernard Shaw
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.Albert Einstein, quoted in New York Times, March 13, 1940
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.John Quincy Adams
By courage I repel adversity.Anonymous
One man with courage is a majority.Thomas Jefferson
I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.Leon Blum
Courage changes things for the better... With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.Earl Nightingale
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.Whitheead
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength loving someone deeply gives you courage.Lao Tzu
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 speech
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.Andre Norton
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.Maya Angelou
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.Abraham Lincoln
Courage is the capacity to comfront what can be imagined....Leo C. Rosten
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.Reinhold Niebuh
Courage is not the towering oak That sees storms come and go It is the fragile blossom That opens in the snow.Alice Mackenzie Swaim
Courage atrophies from lack of use.Unknown
A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.Sir Walter Besant
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.Warren Bennis
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young men of this mealy generation the courage of their confusion.John Anthony Ciardi
The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
But wherefore thou alone Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure Courageous chief, The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight, Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive.John Milton
To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage.Confucius Analects
Courage is found in unlikely places.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - And we will make the goal.Jerome P. Fleishman
Never discourage anyone... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.Plato
The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.Joseph Conrad
